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For The Atlantic’s August-issue cover story, “The Age of Reading Is Over,” staff writer Rose Horowitch argues that we are living in a “postliterate world” where fewer an ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

I left Iran for Canada in 2008 because I was a vocal critic of the regime and had come to fear for my safety. As a journalist ...

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Perhaps Platner’s Nazi tattoo should have been a sufficient indicator that he lacked the character to be a senator. Perhaps ...

Amid these developments, some artists in Hollywood are finding the job more and more unsustainable. A few of the ones I spoke ...

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Nigel Farage is a great survivor. A decade ago, the British populist provocateur achieved his lifelong ambition—getting his ...